Ok, here is a new one. Yesterday a 63 year old unemployed patient asks my MA to ask me if I will complete a form to get her off jury duty. When I ask her on what grounds, she says because she takes Lasix every day for non-cardiac edema and mild HTN. She also says she has "religious reasons". I tell her I cannot speak to her religious objections and that I do not feel her taking a diuretic would be grounds for dismissal. I advised she take the medicine in the afternoon or get up earlier in the morning and take it. I explain that many, many people are on diuretics. She got ticked, hung up then called back to cancel an upcoming appointment and to say she would be finding another doctor.
Now I get a lot of requests for jury dismissal from frail, elderly, debilitated patients and I gladly write them an excuse. But this is a "young" generally healthy adult. Why should I be put in the middle of this judicial affair?
Anyway, good riddance (I say that but in truth it bothers me).
